Moscow: Senior Russian Diplomat Shot Dead Hours Before Assassination of Ambassador in Turkey

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/russian-diplomat-found-dead-moscow-before-ambassador-turkey-assassin-andrei-karlov-a7486546.html

A high-ranking Russian diplomat has reportedly been found dead from a gunshot wound at his Moscow home.
Local media reported a senior civil servant in the Foreign Ministry was found dead at his home in the Balaklavsky Prospekt apartment block with a bullet wound in the head.
The victim has since been named as Petr Polshikov, 56 – who was the chief adviser to the Latin American department at the ministry.